Taming Monsters: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling: (Beauty and Her Monsters) by Violet Fox

Author:Violet Fox [Fox, Violet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter fifteen

Belle

My eyes flutter open as I wake in a strange room. I’m not in my tiny cottage back at the village, but a grand, fancy castle suite with gold molding on the ceiling.

That’s when images of nightmarish wolves rush to the fore of my mind, and I jerk upright in a panic, my eyes flickering around the room.

I imagine the shadowy, lupine faces of wolves watching me from the shadows, my heart pounding against my chest, and that’s when a weight presses down on the mattress beside me.

I peer around to meet the concerned, red eyes of Madoc. Just his eyes, though. I still have yet to see all of his features, but every now and then, I think I can make out a strong jawline and coarse skin.

I want to see the face that I saw in the portrait.

“How are you feeling my beauty?”

Well, there’s a dull, throbbing pain in my forehead, but overall I feel pretty fantastic for a girl who was almost mauled by a pack of shadowy wolves only God knows how many hours ago.

“Pretty good. Thank you for asking.”

A smile stretches his face, and I glimpse a pair of sharp fangs. The grin resembles that of a cow skull lying on the desert floor more than anything else, but regardless, I can’t help but smile back at him.

He came to my rescue. Three of them had, and I’ve never felt so conflicted. I had been running away from them, declaring that I would expunge them from the earth, but here I am, being taken care of by one of the monsters I had sworn to obliterate.

Do I even still want to destroy them? I’m not so sure now. I was just shocked before. I didn’t know what to make of the prophecy.

I can’t be the one destined to send them back to their homeland, right? I mean, the idea is just absurd. Things like that don’t happen to me. They happen to others, or to characters that I read about in books.

Nothing magical ever happens to me.

An awkward silence befalls the two of us, and I don’t miss the sadness shimmering inside of Madoc’s big scarlet eyes. I tried to run away and leave him, and yet he still finds it in his heart to take care of me and call me his beauty.

The monster is convinced that I am his mate, but I’m not so sure. There’s no denying that there’s chemistry between us, but I want more than just

mind-boggling sex.

I want someone who I can depend on. Someone who doesn’t treat me like a trophy. It was the reason why I ignored Gustave’s advances for so many years.

When we were spending time together, there were fleeting moments where I felt more than a sexual draw between us, and just maybe the prophecy is correct; maybe I am the one to set the monsters free and return them to their homeland.

A cold, cynical part of me tells me that I’ve only known the monsters a day.

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